Life and Existence

The primary imagination I hold to be the living Power and prime Agent of all human Perception, and as a repetition in the finite mind of the eternal act of creation in the infinite I AM.

A sadder and a wiser man,

And a thousand thousand slimy things

We were the first that ever burst

It is an ancient Mariner,

But oh! each visitation

Life is a horizontal fall.

Life is a horizontal fall.

In front the sun climbs slow, how slowly,

Thou shalt have one God only; who

The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.

Now this is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning.

He [Hercule Poirot] tapped his forehead.

When men stop believing in God they don’t believe in nothing; they believe in anything.

All conservatism is based upon the idea that if you leave things alone you leave them as they are. But you do not. If you leave a thing alone you leave it to a torrent of change.

For there is good news yet to hear and fine things to be seen,

O yonge, fresshe folkes, he or she,

That lyf so short,

For of fortunes sharpe adversitee

Yblessed be god that I have wedded fyve! Welcome the sixte, whan that evere he shal.

Housbondes at chirche dore she hadde fyve.

Der Tod ist ein Meister aus Deutschland.

Your ashen hair Shulamith we shovel a grave in the air there you won’t lie too cramped.

That is happiness: to be dissolved into something complete and great.